Gorilla Trekking
Hike with trackers and rangers through steep, forested slopes to spend a permitted hour with a habituated gorilla family, watching them feed, rest and move as a group at close range.
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park covers 331 square kilometres of ancient rainforest in southwest Uganda, tangled with vines and buttressed hardwoods that have stood since before the last ice age. It is home to roughly half of the world’s remaining mountain gorillas, spread across a dozen habituated family groups.
A trek here is not a wildlife drive but a walk — often steep, often muddy — through forest that closes in around you until, without warning, you are sitting a few metres from a silverback. Permits are limited and booked well ahead, and a single hour with the gorillas repays every step of the climb.
Hike with trackers and rangers through steep, forested slopes to spend a permitted hour with a habituated gorilla family, watching them feed, rest and move as a group at close range.
Join researchers in the Rushaga sector for up to four hours with a family still being acclimatised to human presence, a slower and less crowded alternative to standard trekking.
Meet the Batwa, Bwindi’s original forest dwellers, and learn how they read the forest for food, medicine and shelter before it became a protected park.
Bwindi holds over 350 recorded bird species, including several Albertine Rift endemics found in few other places on earth.
Tell us roughly when you would like to travel and what draws you here, and we will shape a journey around it.
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